Air France Flight 447

The National Transportation Safety Board condemns the design of the plane’s vertical stabilizer which probably triggered the second worst crash in U.S. history.
Pedal sensitivity on the A300 is such that pilots can unintentionally make the rudder panel on the tail swing violently back and forth, which separated in the Nov 12 2001 [...]

113 victims died in the Concorde jet that crashed in Gonesse France on July 25, 2000. After 10 years of investigation, a court may be ruling in a manslaughter case in December all though culpability is still not satisfactorily established.
The crash may have been caused by a titanium strip that fell off [...]

It has been over a year since Air France Flight 447 from Rio to Paris plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 on board, and Air France is still having problems.
After a week of technical problems in several Air France flights ranging from electrical problems to broken toilets, ANAC is increasing its scrutiny of [...]

We really would prefer to have brand new good news about the search for flight 447 every day, so that we could present good news every single day, instead of bad news once a month. However, since the June announcement that the search was over, the Air France Flight 447 news has been slim pickings. [...]

The BEA announced that the third phase of the search for the black boxes ended unsuccessfully on May 24th. Neither the wreckage nor the black boxes of AF447 were found after searching 17000 square kilometers in all.
The BEA has published a map of the search area in their discussion of the final search phase:
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All the King’s horses and all the King’s men can’t find the black boxes of Air France Flight 447.
Is it true that they’ve given up the search? How is it with all of the technology we have at our disposal in 2010, so much of the plane is missing? The fuselage? The black boxes?
Nelson Marinho, [...]

Various sources indicate that the most recent searches have revealed no new traces of Air France Flight 447, the Airbus A330 en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, which went down in heavy thunderstorms, killing 228 passengers.
The latest search narrowed down the search field from 1,200 square mile to 80 [...]

New calculations by investigators based on the black boxes last pings gathered by the French submarine, the Emeraude have narrowed the area to a space the size of Paris. The boxes have NOT been found; but the search area has been narrowed from 770 square miles. Gen. Christian Baptiste said that they are searching [...]

The most recent search yielded nothing. Three more weeks and that’s it. But for now, apparently some of the equipment has gone back to base to refuel. Using all the latest technology including satellite tracking of ocean currents, the search teams have pinned down the most likely area and are painstakingly searching it. [...]

NTSB Puts: Airbus In the Hot Seat.
It’s about time!
Irony of ironies. Today I finish reading and thinking about the NTSB’s report on the Hudson crash see here here and here . GMTA as they say (Great Minds Think Alike.)
So I am not the only one who believes that Airbus demonstrates problems. [...]